Word: cautiously
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is urging students to be cautious after an assistant professor was the victim of an armed robbery Thursday night...
What are we to make of the Bush Administration's early promises about protecting the environment? The President's pledges to Congress that he would clean up toxic industrial sites and provide more money to the national parks were cautious, inoffensive stuff. But his new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, is talking a much bolder game. Day after day last week, she spoke of getting the sulfur out of diesel fuel, tightening pollution controls on power plants and even curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming, which is the biggest...
...demand." But TV comedy hasn't disappeared so much as migrated to hourlong shows such as Ed, Gilmore Girls, the resurgent Saturday Night Live, the plethora of late-night comics, and even reality shows like Survivor and dramas like The West Wing. The true culprit may be an overly cautious development process. "Networks give writers development deals and then interfere with development," says Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, who last fall debuted the discomfitingly funny, semi-improvisational Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. "Ultimately, anything not in their formula scares them." That formula--set-up, joke, canned laughter, repeat--might...
...elections - most significantly the June presidential race - for the next six years. The decision is seen as a stepped-up campaign to discourage moderate President Mohammed Khatami from running for reelection, rather than as a move to facilitate rigging the June vote itself. Flustered by the hardline backlash, the cautious Khatami may decline to run if the election turns into a confrontation with hardliners. "The President, personally, is the target of these pressures," his brother, Mohammed Reza Khatami, told the students. "He is (their) major obstacle, which all these efforts are aimed at removing...
...producer whose credits included the classics High Noon and The Wild One; in Los Angeles. One of the first producers to work outside the studio system, Kramer burst onto the scene in the early 1950s with a series of spectacularly successful low-budget movies. A liberal in the politically cautious Hollywood of the 1950s and '60s, he often tackled then-controversial subjects such as racism and the nuclear arms race. His 35 films were nominated for a total of 85 Oscars, winning...